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Originally Posted by vhawk01
This seems like an insane thing to believe, considering that there are probably like 50 people on earth (exaggeration) who are doing bad things, believe that what they are doing is bad, and continue to do it anyway. It is fundamentally against human nature. Even most sociopaths probably dont really fit into that category in the sense that they really think its wrong. It seems odd that you think 100% of these callous-but-shockingly-introspective-and-egoless unique individuals happen to be in law enforcement.
Though I agree it would probably be a nice job for one of them.
This seems like an insane thing to believe.
I actually don't care whether they think their actions are justified, well I do but it's secondary, I care that they know their actions are being recorded.
For instance in the
Huff Post on the recording of police interviews
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The recording of interrogations protects suspects by inhibiting the use of coercive tactics known to promote false confessions. In a recent issue of Law and Human Behavior, Saul Kassin and I, and other colleagues, published the results of an NSF-funded field experiment in which experienced police officers were filmed by a hidden camera while questioning suspects who were either guilty or innocent of a simulated crime. Some officers were told in advance that their interrogation would be videotaped; others were not. We found that interrogators who were told that their sessions would be taped were less likely to use certain high-pressure interrogation techniques, such as threatening the suspect and promising leniency in exchange for a confession. They were also better able to correctly determine the suspect's guilt or innocence.
This suggests that knowing their actions are being recorded alters the police behaviour, it also suggests that they know the techniques they use when the cameras aren't on are wrong if they don't know they are acting wrongly why would they act differently when they are being watched?
Last edited by dereds; 08-25-2015 at 10:20 AM.